It was also just marvellous not to have the ceremony punctuated by commercials! The ABC commentary was better than Channel 7’s had been a month ago, with light touches but genuinely informative — and they knew when to shut up: unlike the commentator in the clip below, I’m afraid. We also found out why Adam Hills was one of the ABC commentators: he himself is missing a foot, something I hadn’t known.

It was heart-stopping seeing that guy hauling himself up hand-over-hand in his wheel-chair!

The televising of the paralympics by the ABC is excellent. It is so good to see these wonderful participants at long last given the TV viewing that they deserve. They are indeed the most dedicated and brave people one could ever have the pleasure to see. Also it is great to see so many of Chinese people have attend the events . The ABC deserves great praise for their handling of the covering and the stories behind our people have been wonderful.

The Discovery of Global Warming -- hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change: from the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.

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